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Continue ReadingWhat we know about Brett Favre and the Mississippi welfare scandal
By Eric Levenson and Dianne Gallagher, CNN In May 2020, Mississippi’s state auditor announced that the Department of Human Services had wasted…
Continue ReadingFormer Chinese leader Hu Jintao unexpectedly led out of room as Party Congress comes to a close
By Simone McCarthy, Yong Xiong and Steven Jiang, CNN China’s former top leader, Hu Jintao, was unexpectedly led out of Saturday’s closing…
Continue ReadingMeet Massachusetts’ new state dinosaur
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Continue ReadingZoo announces death of Rusty, DC’s famous fugitive red panda
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Continue ReadingGiorgia Meloni sworn in as Italy’s prime minister. Some fear the hard-right turn she’s promised to take
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Continue ReadingTexas state trooper who was among the first to respond to Uvalde school massacre has been fired, official says
By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman, Rachel Clarke and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN Sgt. Juan Maldonado, a Texas state trooper who was among the first…
Continue ReadingChina wraps up 20th Party Congress with Xi set to become most powerful leader in decades
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Continue Reading‘I sent him bottles of Lambrusco’: Italy’s Berlusconi boasts about friendship with Putin in leaked audio
CNN By Valentina Di Donato, Antonia Mortensen, Sugam Pokharel and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sparked…
Continue ReadingMichigan family of 4 has been missing since Sunday, police say
By Amanda Musa and Tina Burnside, CNN Authorities in western Michigan are searching for a family of four that “unexpectedly left their…
Continue ReadingHouston-area twins tell police they escaped after mom and partner were abusing them, authorities say
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Continue ReadingThis teacher was tortured by the Russians and held for six months before returning to her town in Ukraine in a prisoner swap
By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails, Tim Lister and Scott McWhinnie, CNN The letter had just three words: mama, alive, healthy. But Olena Yuzvak had no…
Continue ReadingThis teacher was tortured by the Russians and held for six months before returning to her town in Ukraine in a prisoner swap
CNN By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails, Tim Lister and Scott McWhinnie, CNN The letter had just three words: mama, alive, healthy. But Olena Yuzvak had…
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